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Notes
1. Oxford English Dictionary: OED Online, Oxford: REMOVE PUBLISHER Oxford UP, September 2022, “dander, n.3,” https://www-oed-com.proxy.library.cornell.edu/view/Entry/47137?rskey=DGR9pz&result=3 (accessed September 18, 2022).
2. Eucharius Roesslin, The Byrth of Mankynde, trans.Thomas Raynald, Tho. Ray[nalde]: London, 1545, iv. sig. Y.viv.
3. OED, dander, n1.
4. Thomas Wright, English Dialect Dictionary, London and New York, H. Frowde, 0000–0000, vol. 3, 19, col. b, dander, n.
5. John Dalrymple, Sir John Dalrymple: Observations on his yeast-cake, [London],1796. 1.
6. Julius Pokorny, Indo-germanisches etymologischesIndo-germanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, 2 vols., 2nd ed., Bern, A. Francke [1959-69]1. 261–64.*dheue-, dheuə-. .
7. See William Sayers, ‘Etymologizing Deprecatory Reduplicative Compounds of the Types flim-flam and higgledy-piggledy, Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 135.2 (2018): 97-106, 135.3 (2018): 147-58.Cf. English dinder: “A local term for the denarii or small coins found on sites of Roman settlements, esp. at Wroxeter in Shropshire” (OED). While this may well derive from Latin denarius, an association with an imagined native English dinder, conceived of as metallic detritus, cannot be ruled out.